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Cheney Defies Bush On Iran

Posted by Guest Blogger at 6:17 AM on May 29, 2007.


Dr. Bruce Prescott: Is Dick Cheney starting a war with Iran behind President Bush's back?
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This post, written by Dr. Bruce Prescott, originally appeared on Mainstream Baptist

Raw Story is reporting that Washington insiders are saying that Vice President Chency is employing "an end run strategy" around President Bush and Secretary of Defense Gates in regard to policy with Iran.

Quoting Steve Clemons of the Washington Note:

The zinger of this information is the admission by this Cheney aide that Cheney himself is frustrated with President Bush and believes, much like Richard Perle, that Bush is making a disastrous mistake by aligning himself with the policy course that Condoleezza Rice, Bob Gates, Michael Hayden and McConnell have sculpted.

According to this official, Cheney believes that Bush can not be counted on to make the "right decision" when it comes to dealing with Iran and thus Cheney believes that he must tie the President's hands.

If this is true, it may be time to impeach Chency for "criminal insubordination."

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Dr. Bruce Prescott is Executive Director of Mainstream Oklahoma Baptists and President of the Oklahoma Chapter of Americans United for Separation of Church and State.


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Beyond apalling... nm
Posted by: Bbear41 on May 29, 2007 8:05 AM   
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Impeach him????
Posted by: JoshuaLudd on May 29, 2007 8:07 AM   
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No... arrest him, then try him for treason.

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» RE: Impeach him???? Posted by: peacefullaim
Don't get hooked
Posted by: Knowmad on May 29, 2007 8:27 AM   
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I have a feeling this is yet another ruse. I mean, if cheney were defying bush (btw, non-caps denote absolute disrespect), do you really think we'd know about it; not to mention the fact that he couldn't do it now that it's out.

No, I suspect this is simply planted information to distract the gullible american public again; part of some more complex - and likely sinister - neocon plot.

And do you actually think whorish bush and his corporate pimps are serious in this apparent step back from invading another mid-east country, and getting tens of thousands more killed and maimed in the process? C'mon, it's like their favourite thing.

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What would John Wayne do?
Posted by: duck on May 29, 2007 8:27 AM   
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Well pilgram, I'll tell you. I'd go to war as often as possible.
Just like I did in real life. What I can't figure out is how Cheney will make more money out of this.

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Cheney is an apt symbol of everything that is wrong
Posted by: bettyn on May 29, 2007 8:49 AM   
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with this country. He is your typical corporate pig who believes he can do anything he wants anytime he wants to do it. The guy is truly a monster.

However, I don't believe for one minute that the entire Bush clan isn't in on this Iran war thing. What scares me most is that they might allow a "dirty bomb" attack by Iranian agents in this country right before the election in 2008, giving this gang of thieving corporate beancounters and neocon Nazis an excuse to impose martial law.

At this point I am capable of believing anything about this crowd....and the Dems, as usual, will meekly go along with it rather than see their corporate handlers abandon them. Cindy Sheehan is right. We are F**KED!

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More Rhetoric, Spin and Bushit
Posted by: bob t on May 29, 2007 9:43 AM   
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This is more phoney bullshit or Bushit. Cheney may be the front man but Bush and ALL his republican enablers and supporters are behind this. Including the right wing religions, the neocons and the corporatocracy.
Then:
Take away even a part of any one of those elements and the Bush crime family could not get away with any of this.
Unless we name names and point fingewrs, loud and clear and make them public they will not stop.
Expose the hidden half of the religious right and the republican party loses many votes which will put them out of power. I know it is a long slow process but there is no other way unless one wants to use civil disobediance.
America is so deeply fragmented by the Rovian Republican method of getting elected that I'm not sure it will survive any civil disobediance in addition to what our countrey has already endured from the right wingers and their lengthy list of crimes and corruptions.
But then maybe America won't survive anyway, under any circumstances given the way over the top crimes of the republican party so maybe there is nothing to lose that we have not already lost.
Do we remember our now largely shredded US Constitution and Scalias call for the end to the rule of law and the end to democracy in America.

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Red Brown and Blue Party comment
Posted by: redbrownandblueparty on May 29, 2007 10:44 AM   
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Is this the same Cheney that supposedly was in the basement of the White House, directing the 911 operation? Fits the good cop/bad cop routine. Bush is the good cop with the school children and Cheney the bad cop in the basement directing the whole shell game. Either way, the people are confused and screwed. Next to Cheney, Bush begins to look more tolerable; sort of like the democrats next to the republicans. Just more of the money masters' pulling the strings to lead the sheeple to shearing pens. It's up to US to reveal the pale male patriarch behind the Wizard of Oz front. Is this the same Cheney holding his grandchild in the recent photo? Reminds me of Hitler patting the children like a lovng father. Thank Godus there is justice; and she's coming round the mountain.

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an old liberal
Posted by: jeanna on May 29, 2007 3:32 PM   
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This is just Bush and Cheney playing good cop, bad cop!

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» RE: no... Posted by: peacefullaim
ecallahan5@frontiernet.net
Posted by: earl on May 30, 2007 6:51 AM   
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We are all being given the old sleight of hand. Let's look at Iran as a danger to us in order to cover up the fact that the US is flattening Iraq, has killed close to 1 million of its 25 million residents. Despite what we are being told the Iraqi do not want us there, and know it would be better for them if we simply left. Be careful, lest we fall into the trap. Cheney alone, I agree, if frightening. Bush alone, is more frightening.

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Surprise, surprise, surprise!
Posted by: freerain on May 31, 2007 6:02 AM   
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Ladies and Gentlemen, the Vice President, Dick Cheney, has an announcement to make:

"With solemn regret (cough) I am here to inform you that your president has been hospitalized, suffering a severe and acute mental breakdown. For the safety of America, and in accordance with the provisions of the Constitution, I am humbly (sneer) ascending, uh, assuming, uh, taking over the duties of the President, and Commander-in-Cheif, during this period of time, untill Georgie, President Bush, is recovered."

Have you all been asleep? Bushboy has been the front man for Cheney from the begining. I'm not surprised. With this vocalization of dissent from Cheney, it won't be long now befor the Evil Penguine takes center stage and unleashes His menace on the whole world.

We will be alone. The rest of the world will not stand for this, I hope, and things are gonna get worse.

WAKE UP!

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